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2018-12-28

by shaenon on December 28, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Iron Man
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  1. Moe Lane
    December 28, 2018, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Dammit, Gavotte.

  2. Towering Barbarian
    December 28, 2018, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Gavotte is not the Glinda Ginny wanted. But she is the Glinda that Ginny and the rest of Skin Horse deserve. ^_^

    • Robert Nowall
      December 28, 2018, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      Well, looks like Virginia can’t click her shoes together and say “There’s no place like home.” No shoes.

      • Towering Barbarian
        December 28, 2018, 2:07 am | # | Reply

        Yeah. I guess she’ll have to go claim them off a Wicked Witch somewhere. Good thing she still has a shirt or else she’d have no service. ^_~

        • awgiedawgie
          December 28, 2018, 3:29 am | # | Reply

          Not to worry. That rule is frequently overlooked when the shirtless person is a beautiful woman.

          • waynezombie
            December 28, 2018, 2:28 pm | #

            My favorite show of overriding the No Shoes rule was Kill Bill 2 with The Bride storming out of the graveyard, into the all-night diner, asking for water. She was wearing a jacket, so not shirtless.

  3. Dave
    December 28, 2018, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Is Nick out of his gel casing?!

    • David B Huber
      December 28, 2018, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      Apparently. That can’t be good!

      • Towering Barbarian
        December 28, 2018, 2:04 am | # | Reply

        If it’s the VR environment it can’t do him much harm either. Perhaps it’s a sign that he’s altered things to the image he prefers and is already starting to exert control? o_O

    • soft
      December 28, 2018, 9:14 am | # | Reply

      Oops… missed that someone else already commented on it. ๐Ÿ˜›

      A few strips back I noticed a dripping effect from the casing. Seems odd to me that DARPA grade stuff like that would just start melting off once rescued….

  4. Robert Nowall
    December 28, 2018, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    These woods look kinda familiar.

    • Bruceski
      December 28, 2018, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      Whose woods these are I think I know.
      He’s pistol-whipped back at base though.
      He will not see me stopping here
      to gather walnuts… wait, oh no!

    • awgiedawgie
      December 28, 2018, 3:36 am | # | Reply

      All woods look kinda familiar at night. The fact that it’s not raining is a good sign. I still have hope that they are, in fact, in the real world.

      (But still bonus points to Bruceski for paraphrasing Robert Frost)

      • Bruceski
        December 28, 2018, 11:25 pm | # | Reply

        For the record I agree, but once the brain starts working on one of those things it’s gotta come out of it’ll drive me mad.

        …der

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      December 31, 2018, 9:03 pm | # | Reply

      Egads, you’re right! They’re in Stanley Park, Vancouver!

  5. Bruce A Munro
    December 28, 2018, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    Goddamn oracles…

  6. Leslie Piper
    December 28, 2018, 3:38 am | # | Reply

    I wish Virgie hade hit Ira(the GreatGreenWeen) harder and more often, but now, unless she got rid of it, she’s armed with his pistol, the guards will be more circumspect; she has Gavotte, and just may be in the very spot to be ‘picked up ‘ by the next bus to Lovetron. What’s not to like?

    • awgiedawgie
      December 28, 2018, 5:05 am | # | Reply

      My first thought is that she discovered that he didn’t even have the gun loaded, so she got rid of it.

      • mickeyjf
        December 28, 2018, 12:01 pm | # | Reply

        Hospital gown. No pockets.

        • awgiedawgie
          December 28, 2018, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

          She changed out of the gown. She’s wearing scrubs. They often do have pockets in the trousers.

      • Owlmirror
        December 28, 2018, 10:03 pm | # | Reply

        Modern armaments technologies can include biometric and/or token-based (eg, ring or amulet with RFID or similar) activation, and/or embedded tracking technology.

        By using the gun as a blunt object and getting rid of it as soon as possible afterwards (down a nearby sewer intake?), Dr. Lee neatly avoids having to deal with the very real possibility that Mr. Green had a gun that used one or more of the above technologies, or something similar. Or something worse (doesn’t just not fire if firing is attempted by someone not the owner, but actually explodes or sprays/injects toxins).

  7. Seph
    December 28, 2018, 4:48 am | # | Reply

    If Gavotte is supposed to be English, โ€˜gottenโ€™ should be โ€˜gotโ€™.

    • awgiedawgie
      December 28, 2018, 5:00 am | # | Reply

      She has been living in America for quite some time, so it’s only reasonable that the dialects would get blurred. I have a few English friends who have only been in America for a couple years, and their language has become much more American sounding than Gavotte’s is (in fact, I have never been to Great Britain, and I tend to speak more like an Englishman than they do).

      • Daibhid C
        December 28, 2018, 2:05 pm | # | Reply

        I’m not entirely sure I wouldn’t say “gotten” just from watching American telly.

        • awgiedawgie
          December 28, 2018, 4:11 pm | # | Reply

          I’m impressed you even watch American telly. I prefer BBC.

  8. colomon
    December 28, 2018, 8:16 am | # | Reply

    I know “humbug” is a word in more general use (at least historically — there’s a great song “You’re Nothing But a Humbug” which seems to be a shanty-ish precursor to “Hound Dog”) but it has a very strong Wizard of Oz association, doesn’t it?

    • Mental Mouse
      December 28, 2018, 9:25 am | # | Reply

      Second only to its association with Ebenezer Scrooge.

  9. Steve
    December 28, 2018, 8:39 am | # | Reply

    Time for Ginny to click her heels and say “There’s no place like home.”

    • Robert Nowall
      December 28, 2018, 5:07 pm | # | Reply

      Next stop: the ruby slippers.

      • awgiedawgie
        December 28, 2018, 6:50 pm | # | Reply

        How about rocket boots? Close enough?

      • Shen Hibiki
        December 28, 2018, 10:46 pm | # | Reply

        Aaaaand now I wonder how she’ll do in ErfWorld..

  10. soft
    December 28, 2018, 9:11 am | # | Reply

    What happened to the stuff that was supposed to be covering/incasing Nick’s brain?

    • soft
      December 28, 2018, 9:12 am | # | Reply

      encasing*

    • Shadowmehr
      December 28, 2018, 9:36 am | # | Reply

      It is entirely possible in this universe that DARPA grade preservative plus raw organic slurry plus Nick’s cybernetics means that a mutation has occurred and he will now start growing his own (Toxic Avenger-esque) body to roam around in.

      • David B Huber
        December 28, 2018, 11:45 pm | # | Reply

        More likely full telekinetic floating, glowing brain…

  11. duane b
    December 28, 2018, 11:22 am | # | Reply

    she didnt keep the gun???

  12. Guesticus
    December 28, 2018, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

    No one making a Nigel Thornberry reference or post concerning the last panel? ๐Ÿ™

  13. Sheik
    December 28, 2018, 2:23 pm | # | Reply

    After all this the brain Virginia is now holding will get destroyed and only _then_ it will be discovered it was the wrong one.

    • Pygar
      December 28, 2018, 6:00 pm | # | Reply

      This one belongs to Abby Someone, but she’ll have to install it in a behemoth to find that out…

      • awgiedawgie
        December 28, 2018, 6:53 pm | # | Reply

        Just imagine the wonderful chaos that would ensue from having Ms. Normal’s brain in something like Annex One. o_O

        • Pygar
          December 28, 2018, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

          Instead of Hitty, Moustashio, or Unity?

  14. Jon
    December 29, 2018, 2:35 am | # | Reply

    So we’re not going back for the helicopter? … okay, then?

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